How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers Paperback / softback
by Richard Cohen
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A Spectator Best Book of the Year‘This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader.
It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements.
You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.’ Hilary Mantel‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets—writing a good sex scene?Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers—from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way.
In a glittering tour d’horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.
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- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Oneworld Publications
- Publication Date:07/09/2017
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- ISBN:9781786071651
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Oneworld Publications
- Publication Date:07/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786071651